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Definition of Posterior temporal artery
1. Noun. Temporal artery that supplies the posterior part of the cortex of the temporal lobe.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Posterior Temporal Artery
Literary usage of Posterior temporal artery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Surgical Anatomy of the Head and Neck by John Blair Deaver (1904)
"The posterior temporal artery, the larger of the two, passes upward and backward
above the pinna and anastomoses with the posterior temporal artery of the ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"posterior temporal artery, the larger of the two terminal branches of the
superficial temporal, ramifying on the side of the head, and distributed to the ..."
3. Engravings of the Arteries: Illustrating the Second Volume of the Anatomy of by Charles Bell (1810)
"A branch sometimes called posterior temporal artery. 10. Posterior Artery of the
Ear. 11. The continued Branch of the External Carotid, or sometimes the ..."
4. A Manual of human anatomy arranged for second-year students by John Mumford Swan (1898)
"The posterior temporal artery passes backward, in the superficial fascia of the
scalp, to anastomose with the posterior auricular artery and with the ..."
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